Just wondering what everyones favorite restaurant is and why, im talking like Apple bees, Long horns, Ruby Tuesdays. places like that.
Favorite resturant
There is a little Chinese place where I live, its called Jade Garden, it is very very good! If you guys are every down by where I live go there!
There's an Indian restaurant just across the road from here which is very good and cheap. 60 Swedish kronor for lunch (about $3.50).
Favourite restaurants:
Okay, but what about chains? Some of them can be quite good restaurants, though most cannot come close to individual restaurants such as the ones above. Here, then, are a few comments about some of the better chains:
One more note: Pizza? If you MUST go to a chain, just go with the one you like. Otherwise, it has been my experience that the best pizza places in the States are the individual places - especially the ones run by Greeks, NOT by Italians.
- Hungarian Village (Daytona Beach, FL) - Incredible, authentic, yet inexpensive Hungarian cuisine. Unfortunately, closed, since the elderly, Hungarian couple who ran it (and did most of the cooking - no wonder it was authentic) retired due to their age.
- Maison et Jardin (Altamonte Springs, FL) - Top-notch French restaurant with impeccable service. Expect to drop $$$ there, but well worth it.
- La Crepe en Haut (Ormond Beach, FL) - Another fine French place. Their crab cakes are a must!
- The Dillard House (Dillard, GA) - Family-style, all-you-can-eat restaurant with scrumptious Southern food. "Family-style," here, refers not only to the cooking, but also to the fact that there is NO menu - they just put one of everything onto the table and let you pass them around as you would at your family's dining table. If something starts to run low, they bring out more until you tell them to stop. After that, they bring out the peach cobbler, a-la-mode, which is also all you can eat.
- Vickers Tavern (Exton, PA) - The Pennsylvania, country-inn restaurants are wonderful. There's even a cookbook available featuring many of them.
- Duling-Kurtz House (Exton, PA) - Another Pennsylvania inn, also in Exton, but not all of them are in Exton, and it is well worth it to explore the many that the general, Philadelphia area has to offer.
- Far Pavilion (Orlando, FL) - Of all the Indian restaurants in the Orlando, THIS is the one to which my Indian friends would go, and it's also less expensive than most of the others. The vindaloo is fantastic!
- Mango Tango (La Ceiba, Honduras) - Well, I should include at least one restaurant from where I currently live, and this is one of the best - good prices, too: a pair of chuletas (pork chops) with beans, rice, and tajadas (fried plantain chips) is less than $5.
Okay, but what about chains? Some of them can be quite good restaurants, though most cannot come close to individual restaurants such as the ones above. Here, then, are a few comments about some of the better chains:
- Wolfgang Puck's Cafés - What can I say? I used to cook for one of these, so I know it is more than just a typical chain, and bears the name of the chef who caters the Academy Awards parties, etc. This chain is far above any other. My favourite dish there: Chicken Pad Thai.
- Orlando (and other FL locations) Ale House - Great food that is consistently good each time and in each of their locations. It is impossible to get a bad meal there unless you deliberately order something you don't like. My two favourite meals there are the "Big Red" sandwich (a whole chicken breast cooked as you would Buffalo wings, covered with melted cheese, the served on a sandwich with lettuce and tomato. No other restaurant's "Buffalo chicken sandwich" even comes close. My other favourite is the Cajun Chicken Pasta: wonderful pasta and chicken in a nicely spicy, creamy sauce.
- Carrabba's - Hard to choose between the Chicken Bryan and the Pollo Rosa Maria. One of the best chains for properly seasoning the olive oil in which you dip your bread (especially contrasted with Macaroni Grill, which adds no oregano, basil, etc. - just a couple twists of the pepper mill).
- Buca di Beppo - Unusual theme, but superb food. Remember that a single entrée is intended to feed four or five people, so don't make the mistake of ordering a separate entrée for each person!
- Fazoli's - Yes, believe it or not, an Italian fast-food joint makes the list. Not only that, my native-Italian friends prefer Fazoli's (and Buca di Beppo) WAY more than Olive Garden. They consider Olive Garden to be a joke, and so do I, although some of the food there IS good - just nothing like Buca or Fazoli's.
- Red, Hot and Blue - Incredible, blues-themed barbecue restaurant chain. The ribs with the dry rub are an absolute must. For lunch, get the pulled-pork sandwich.
- Checkers (a.k.a. "Rally's" in some regions) - Forget MacDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King (even more, forget Krystal and Sonic) - Checkers is the best of the fast-food-burger joints.
One more note: Pizza? If you MUST go to a chain, just go with the one you like. Otherwise, it has been my experience that the best pizza places in the States are the individual places - especially the ones run by Greeks, NOT by Italians.
I like Fazoli's, Olive Garden, Applebee's (I waitress there... lol), Gino's, and steakhouses ^_^
I mostly ever to is to Olive Garden , Applebees,Rio Bravo,Denny's.
TGI FRIDAYS ALL THE WAY! im from rhode island btw. just in case none of u heard of it and it may be a restaurant only around here
theres this steakhouse around where i live... its called crofters.... theyre steak is soooooooo goood.... and theres another place down the road from that called jungle jims... best damn chicken wings... i ate 2 pounds there once... with suicide hot sauce... man that was acutally my b-day
i am not in the United States so for most of the restaurants you mentioned, i never heard about them.... i am in hong kong. In fact, i do not have any specific favourite restaurants, as i like going to try new tastes always. But i do have restaurants that i go often. It's Bistro Délifrance. i think the food quite suits me and i like the environment there, so relaxed and the seats are not too closed. i dont like a restaurant with the seats very closed to each other, seems that being monitored by the neighbour customers....
I don't know if Arby's counts as a restaurant but if it does, I choose you Arby's! I love their sandwiches, and they have good onion rings. Most of all though, I love the Jamocha Shakes!
Wong Kei, a few minutes' walk from Leicester square. It's not at all up-market but the food is yummy, dirt cheap and served in large portions. Service is amazingly efficient given the size of the place (there are, what... four floors?) and they don't have any problem serving you stuff which doesn't appear on te menu.
As for chain restaurants...
I also love Wagamama. Huge portions, great atmosphere and delicious food.
Jimmy Chung's is great for the buffet, although I've not seen it outside of Scotland.
And Browns. Browns is good.
As for chain restaurants...
I also love Wagamama. Huge portions, great atmosphere and delicious food.
Jimmy Chung's is great for the buffet, although I've not seen it outside of Scotland.
And Browns. Browns is good.
Hi there,
Every week or so I go to a small Japanese restaurant (called Kitakata) near where I live (in Portugal) to have a sushi feast. I usually go with my girlfriend and our friends and i must say that this is more like a ritual of friend than a dinner out. We usually talk a lot and a quick dinner usually last 2-3 hours
Can't live without sushi :
Stay COol!
Every week or so I go to a small Japanese restaurant (called Kitakata) near where I live (in Portugal) to have a sushi feast. I usually go with my girlfriend and our friends and i must say that this is more like a ritual of friend than a dinner out. We usually talk a lot and a quick dinner usually last 2-3 hours
Can't live without sushi :
Stay COol!
Any Chinese place is my favorite. Near me there is china one buffet that is probably my favorite of them all because of their ridiculous selection of Chinese food.
I got a couple favourite restaurants that I live to visit. I cant eat too much of anything cuz I get bored too easily. TGIF is one of my favourites but its a bit expensive down here. Also Cuddy'z is nice as well as Jamrock in New Kingston.. they have some killer oxtail. Most chinese restaurants also like Jade Garden, China Express and Double Town are also some of my favs. Then there are the extra fast food places like Wendys and KFC that I love. Oh I love food, couple more lol.. I love sushi!! and buying fish by the beach =)
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All-you-can-eat restaurants for the win haha!
My favorite restaurants are my local diners. There are two major ones in my small town and they are real dive joints. Oldie goldie music on the radio, really cheap burgers, bottomless coffee, familiar faces. It's good stuff.
I'm from south korea. but I'm living in Ottawa now. Sometimes I I want to have my country's meal but there are few korean restaurants here.
Especially I like korean-chinese food but there is no restaurant of korean-chinese here. I just found out similar one here. it is Chinese-Vietnam restaurant. Fried rice is very very simillar to what I want.
So I love there..
Especially I like korean-chinese food but there is no restaurant of korean-chinese here. I just found out similar one here. it is Chinese-Vietnam restaurant. Fried rice is very very simillar to what I want.
So I love there..
| windrei wrote: |
| i am not in the United States so for most of the restaurants you mentioned, i never heard about them... |
Neither I did.
But are the restaurants in US one company - like McDonald's or KFC? I mean more restaurants joined in one company? I dont know any of them in Czech rep. (except KFC and McDonald's)
| Dakafall wrote: |
| There is a little Chinese place where I live, its called Jade Garden, it is very very good! If you guys are every down by where I live go there! |
yeah we have one to, just the same name.. they have good dinners there^^,) bec its very nice, great service and nice peeps there..they are allways free to the guests!
I like this Chinese place called the Regency Palace. The restaurant inside is soooo nice looking. And it's the third floor above this mall too. xD
My favorite restaurant is a little Thai place in north London. It's cheap yet wonderful. It's not hugely famous or overly busy & I like it that way! Their menu is creative yet still traditional & there's huge value for money. mmm, I'm hungry just thinking of it.
My favourite restaurants are any italian restaurants.. I love italien food and pasta so much.
It's too bad pasta has so many calories in it, because I would eat that day and night!
I also love chineese food, but I don't know of any place here in Québec that makes good chineese food.
It's too bad pasta has so many calories in it, because I would eat that day and night!
I also love chineese food, but I don't know of any place here in Québec that makes good chineese food.
Hmm, okay damn I don't even gotta think!
Old country buffet
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Sizzler — Steak house ftw!
i better not see any mcdonalds or like some weak ass little burger place or im going to die ;;
Old country buffet
andd...
Sizzler — Steak house ftw!
i better not see any mcdonalds or like some weak ass little burger place or im going to die ;;
Olive Garden all the way....thier fettucini alfredo is just to die for! (forgive my spelling...I don't speak Italian. 
In Slovenia I like Chinese restaurants because they have good chinese food. There is also good Jurman restaurant and McDonald's 
Here in Pune, I like Sheesha cafe at ABC farms. On Haighway there is one dhaba called Great Panjab... its a classy panjabi restau. I visited a new restau few days back called MainLand China. It was good. When I was in Fergusson College, I liked to go 'Savera' after bunking lectures. It was hotspot for my group.
Well I like Chinse food and pizza lol
| Soldier wrote: |
| Well I like Chinse food and pizza lol |
Hmmm...a pizza topped with General Tso's Chicken? or with bean sprouts, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and snow pea pods (maybe with a black-bean sauce instead of tomato sauce)?
Could be interesting.
| Vrythramax wrote: |
| Olive Garden all the way....thier fettucini alfredo is just to die for! (forgive my spelling...I don't speak Italian. |
I second that! And their bread sticks too! I love them all.
dont quite remember the restaurant name, but its in a shopping mall near my place and the thing is i know where to find it. first time i ate there wow wow wow best seafood fried rice and drink it with green tea.... very spicy and lots of seafood crab, prawn, squid etc... its kind of japanese+chinese style. the seafood fried rice is a lot.. i think like 3 people can eat it but was serve for per person...yummy
and there's the other place- a all you can eat ... a buffet self service restaurant...the whole place "packed" with food from appetizers, dessert, soup, heavy meal, light meal, bread, ice cream, all sort of steaks, asian food, western food, Mediterranean food, you name it...i think there are like hundreds of varieties...
and there's the other place- a all you can eat ... a buffet self service restaurant...the whole place "packed" with food from appetizers, dessert, soup, heavy meal, light meal, bread, ice cream, all sort of steaks, asian food, western food, Mediterranean food, you name it...i think there are like hundreds of varieties...
Oasis Ice cream parlor in CA
Oasis offers "home-made" ice cream in a variety of flavors, as well as a large assortment of fruit bars (Mexican-style Popcicles). The ice cream is fresher and creamier than any ready-made, with lots of fresh shredded coconut, chocolate chips, nuts, trail mix, etc. The fruit bars are full of chunks of pineapple, watermelon, tamarind, etc. Cones are cheap, at around $1.20 for a big scoop. Man I feel like driving down there right now
Murrieta's in NY
MURRIETA'S is neither closed nor at the back of any shopping centers!! It has a long driveway and the building resembles a large hacienda/ranch house on a hill PAST neighborhood shopping center. Murrieta's has been the ONLY full service family restaurant that has lasted in Bonita. It has been there for 25 years and is still owned by the same family, consistently turning out great food and great service. My family has been dining there for at least 20 years and we LOVE IT. We celebrate many family holidays, as well as simple lunches and vivacious dinner parties there. You can always count on seeing your friends there as it is heavy with us locals. And another great quality is that the waitstaff remembers YOUR NAME and what is going on in your life! Not just great food and great service, it is a place where you feel at home. They have the best salsas I have ever tasted. I recommend the Carne Asada Plate or Chicken Fajitas. If you like seafood, the Camamrones Tequila are to die for...and you have NEVER had a margarita like they serve at Murrieta's! God Forbid they ever close!
Oasis offers "home-made" ice cream in a variety of flavors, as well as a large assortment of fruit bars (Mexican-style Popcicles). The ice cream is fresher and creamier than any ready-made, with lots of fresh shredded coconut, chocolate chips, nuts, trail mix, etc. The fruit bars are full of chunks of pineapple, watermelon, tamarind, etc. Cones are cheap, at around $1.20 for a big scoop. Man I feel like driving down there right now
Murrieta's in NY
MURRIETA'S is neither closed nor at the back of any shopping centers!! It has a long driveway and the building resembles a large hacienda/ranch house on a hill PAST neighborhood shopping center. Murrieta's has been the ONLY full service family restaurant that has lasted in Bonita. It has been there for 25 years and is still owned by the same family, consistently turning out great food and great service. My family has been dining there for at least 20 years and we LOVE IT. We celebrate many family holidays, as well as simple lunches and vivacious dinner parties there. You can always count on seeing your friends there as it is heavy with us locals. And another great quality is that the waitstaff remembers YOUR NAME and what is going on in your life! Not just great food and great service, it is a place where you feel at home. They have the best salsas I have ever tasted. I recommend the Carne Asada Plate or Chicken Fajitas. If you like seafood, the Camamrones Tequila are to die for...and you have NEVER had a margarita like they serve at Murrieta's! God Forbid they ever close!
hhmmm.... i think i'd say my favorite restuarant that no one has ever heard of, is this place called Tilts Pub. It's got this popcorn chicken that's out of this world!!! lol
My favorite, well known, restuarant is probably Planet Hollywood if any of you ever heard of that one. Basically the designed the inside to have a whole bunch of movies and actors inside. Their New York Strip Steak is amazing!! It tastes so good and it's cooked perfectly every time I go there.
My favorite, well known, restuarant is probably Planet Hollywood if any of you ever heard of that one. Basically the designed the inside to have a whole bunch of movies and actors inside. Their New York Strip Steak is amazing!! It tastes so good and it's cooked perfectly every time I go there.
My uncle owns this restaurant
Hounslow Lahori Karahi , in London
who ever wants to have a discount just lemme know
Hounslow Lahori Karahi , in London
who ever wants to have a discount just lemme know
'The blue Olive' in London is 'the hottest resto-club' in London according to CNN... And believe me it is!!!
Just check:
www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_restaurant_6445.html
for more information...
And if you deside to go there: the TAPAS rule !!!!
Just check:
www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_restaurant_6445.html
for more information...
And if you deside to go there: the TAPAS rule !!!!
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for those of you livin gin massachusetts...lol in teh united states. theres this rly good place called minado. i duno if they have a website but i know that htey are awesome becaus ethey serve teh best sushi in the world. no joke. ive been to japan and the sushi there are too pure. the sushi here gives it a little americanization and it tasts mad good. best part is, it's almost never completely filled, its a BUFFET and the prices are relatively low: about 10-12bucks per person if you come at the righ ttime. so think about it: you get about 50 sushi rolls and a couple of plates of fish and chicken teraki for only 10 dollars.dontforget, you still get the re-fillable medium soft drink taht you can get with your meal for an additional dollar. so thats 11 dollars...which ,at other sushi restaurants wil probably costyou 20. so come to minado!
-Yofriend
XQX
for those of you livin gin massachusetts...lol in teh united states. theres this rly good place called minado. i duno if they have a website but i know that htey are awesome becaus ethey serve teh best sushi in the world. no joke. ive been to japan and the sushi there are too pure. the sushi here gives it a little americanization and it tasts mad good. best part is, it's almost never completely filled, its a BUFFET and the prices are relatively low: about 10-12bucks per person if you come at the righ ttime. so think about it: you get about 50 sushi rolls and a couple of plates of fish and chicken teraki for only 10 dollars.dontforget, you still get the re-fillable medium soft drink taht you can get with your meal for an additional dollar. so thats 11 dollars...which ,at other sushi restaurants wil probably costyou 20. so come to minado!
-Yofriend
XQX
Sanskriti at District Centre, Janak Puri, New Delhi, India.... only south indian food bt at a particular time north ndia is also available... their sambhar is awesome
Bikanervala.... all kinds of veg food... chinese. continental, india
love these places
Bikanervala.... all kinds of veg food... chinese. continental, india
love these places
Old Town Chinese Restaraunt - Man great place and great food. Prices are great. A lot of the dishes are 5 dollars. Their Sea Food hot pot is too die for.
Tony Romas - I love their BBQ Ribs, its so savory, and also their onion loafs.
Tony Romas - I love their BBQ Ribs, its so savory, and also their onion loafs.
Any italian or arabian restaurant.
My favorite restaurant is located quarry bay in hong kong. It is called "Mama Indian". The food at there is similar to those I have had in India. Unforgettable experience, memorable taste and comfortable environment. And, the waiters at there are really nice.
If anyone who want to go Hong Kong. I strongly recommend you to have a tried at there. Also, they provide lunch buffet with acceptable price.
* Delicious *
If anyone who want to go Hong Kong. I strongly recommend you to have a tried at there. Also, they provide lunch buffet with acceptable price.
* Delicious *
Olive Garden has some very good food... but to me, it is very over priced... so Olive Garden is basically only for very special occassions...
As for places we go just because we can, I would have to say Chi Chi's (not sure if they are even around anymore since the 2 I knew of in my surrounding area are no longer there), Applebee's, Fozoli's, Luigi's (local pizza and ittalian resturant) and a new place we just ate at called Qdoba (mexican style subway I guess would be the best way to put that one)
Favorite types of food, Italian and Mexican.
As for places we go just because we can, I would have to say Chi Chi's (not sure if they are even around anymore since the 2 I knew of in my surrounding area are no longer there), Applebee's, Fozoli's, Luigi's (local pizza and ittalian resturant) and a new place we just ate at called Qdoba (mexican style subway I guess would be the best way to put that one)
Favorite types of food, Italian and Mexican.
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